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Microsoft's Virtualization platform too weak to deploy




This article talks about how Microsoft is trailing behind in its Virtualization adventure.

However, Microsoft does say that this technology is likely to be included in a Service Pack 1 release of the product, but this also raises questions about Microsoft's ability to produce the live migration capability on its architecture for WSV.

The knock-on effect of live migration not being in the first release of WSV is that Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) product, due for release in the second half of 2007, will not be able to perform the live movement of VMs, which is a major reason why some customers would use SCVMM.

The second feature removed from the first release version of WSV is the ability to add storage, network, memory, or CPUs on-the-fly to running VMs This lack of this ability will restrict users from dynamically adjusting the resources to meet the current demands.


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